We are excited to announce the latest release of our continuous integration server: Pulse 2.0! This is by far our biggest release yet, hence the bump to 2.0. It combines two huge new features: templated configuration and plugins, which we have deliberately added together to allow them to combine seamlessly. The new [...]

Next week I’ll be heading to Antwerp, Belgium for the 3 days of conference at Javapolis Javoxx Devoxx. I don’t often go for larger conferences (too many marketroids), but have heard that Devoxx is a bit different — I guess I’ll find out! I’m keen to hook up with any Zutubi customers, competitors or plain [...]

Next week I’ll be heading to Antwerp, Belgium for the 3 days of conference at Javapolis Javoxx Devoxx. I don’t often go for larger conferences (too many marketroids), but have heard that Devoxx is a bit different — I guess I’ll find out! I’m keen to hook up with any Zutubi customers, competitors or plain [...]

Being in the continuous integration game, it’s part of my job to keep an eye on build tools and technologies. Occasionally I hear of something interesting enough to try out, so when I next start a small project I’ll give it a go. This time it is the turn of Gradle. From the Gradle [...]

Being in the continuous integration game, it’s part of my job to keep an eye on build tools and technologies. Occasionally I hear of something interesting enough to try out, so when I next start a small project I’ll give it a go. This time it is the turn of Gradle. From the Gradle [...]

I’ve just pushed up version 2.0.16 of Pulse, the first 2.0 build that can be considered as an RC. Part of the criteria for getting to RC was of course to update the documentation: a large task due to the many changes in 2.0. This gives me a chance to highlight a cool new feature [...]

I’ve just pushed up version 2.0.16 of Pulse, the first 2.0 build that can be considered as an RC. Part of the criteria for getting to RC was of course to update the documentation: a large task due to the many changes in 2.0. This gives me a chance to highlight a cool new feature [...]

Continuing the theme, another misguided idea is that your CI build must never break. I think the real issue here is that this idea focuses on the wrong thing: it’s not really broken builds that matter, it’s why they break and what you do about it. Broken Builds Are Information If your build never breaks, then [...]

Continuing the theme, another misguided idea is that your CI build must never break. I think the real issue here is that this idea focuses on the wrong thing: it’s not really broken builds that matter, it’s why they break and what you do about it. Broken Builds Are Information If your build never breaks, then [...]

Today we’ve just released Pulse 2.0.15. The release notes for this build show that the beta phase is running hot now: 29 improvements and fixes since 2.0.14 which itself was released just 9 days ago! Thanks to our beta users: the feedback has been great lately allowing us to nail several minor bugs [...]

Today we’ve just released Pulse 2.0.15. The release notes for this build show that the beta phase is running hot now: 29 improvements and fixes since 2.0.14 which itself was released just 9 days ago! Thanks to our beta users: the feedback has been great lately allowing us to nail several minor bugs [...]

Possibly the most common myth around Continuous Integration (CI) is the idea that if you have an automated build server, then you are doing CI. In fact, a build server is just a tool to help you achieve part of CI: automated builds on an independent machine. This is not even the most [...]

Possibly the most common myth around Continuous Integration (CI) is the idea that if you have an automated build server, then you are doing CI. In fact, a build server is just a tool to help you achieve part of CI: automated builds on an independent machine. This is not even the most [...]

Over the weekend I attended the latest CITCON in Amsterdam. Like the last CITCON I made it to (in Sydney), this was a great event. There is no doubt that the conference formula of: free focused open spaces on the weekend works well. I attended a bunch of interesting sessions, my favourite probably being Ivan Moore’s on [...]

Over the weekend I attended the latest CITCON in Amsterdam. Like the last CITCON I made it to (in Sydney), this was a great event. There is no doubt that the conference formula of: free focused open spaces on the weekend works well. I attended a bunch of interesting sessions, my favourite probably being Ivan Moore’s on [...]